Farmcrowdy.com:
A New Way to Partner with a Farmer Using Technology
Farmcrowdy.com, Nigeria’s first digital agriculture platform is offering
a new way for Nigerians to participate in Agriculture using their
online technology.
By partnering with Farmcrowdy to own a minimum farm space, it is
now possible for Nigerians across the world to commit an agreed sum
to starting and completing a farming cycle. In doing so, the farm
partner is able to sponsor a farmer in one farming cycle thereby
empowering
the
farmer,
expanding
their
farm
operations,
participating in the drive to end food scarcity and making use of 50
million hectares of arable farm land in Nigeria that is currently underutilized according to the World Bank.
The Farmcrowdy.com platform allows Farms Partners to sponsor any
farm of their choice including Maize Farms, Poultry (Broiler) Farms,
Cassava Farms and Tomato Farms. The Farm Partners then gets biweekly updates about their farm progress including pictures and
videos from the farmers.
Also, Farm Partners can visit their farms if they wish to at any point in time to learn about the farmer they’ve partnered with and the farm
products they are working on. Onyeka Akumah who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Farmcrowdy.com, disclosed that the company has acquired
“Over 1,000 hectares of farmland in the South-Western part of Nigeria especially in Oyo and Ogun state as we launch this initiative.
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